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Study Abroad Cagli (Italy) project with Gonzaga University

Gonzaga University has announced that the Cagli Project is now available to undergraduate and graduate students from any university.  This will be the 13th year of the Intercultural Communication and International
Media Project in Cagli, Italy. Students can earn up to six graduate or undergraduate credits in communication and leadership in this cultural immersion project that stresses media convergence.  Recently one of their projects was featured in the American Journalism Review.

The program includes instruction in language and culture as well as photo, video, web design, writing and blogging.  Class begins in Florence and moves to historical Cagli in the Apennine Mountains.  The program also includes a day trip Assisi and to the beautiful Renaissance city of Urbino, and there is free “weekend travel”  Dates are June 17 – July 3, 2016.  The program has won several awards.

For further information, contact: Professor John S. Caputo, Department of Communication & Leadership Studies

 

CFP Media Ecology Association: Interfaces of Play and Game: Engaging Media Ecosystems (Italy)

CFP: Call for Papers: Media Ecology Association 2016 Convention
The Seventeenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
INTERFACES OF PLAY AND GAME: ENGAGING MEDIA ECOSYSTEMS
June 23-26, 2016
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy

MEA Convention Coordinators: Paolo Granata, Elena Lamberti, Brett Lunceford
UNIBO Coordinators: Roberto Farnè, Mirco Dondi

The University of Bologna, Italy, is proud to bring the Media Ecology Association to Europe for the first time and host the 17th Annual Convention in Bologna and Rimini on June 23-26, 2016. Considered the oldest university in the Western world, the history of the University of Bologna speaks to its role as the crossroads of a variety of scholarly traditions and changes involving the broader society. The University of Bologna provides a welcoming setting for old and new MEA members, inviting scholars, professionals, and interested people to attend from different fields, as well as from different nations.

The 17th Annual Convention, focusing on the theme “Interfaces of Play and Game,” invites papers, panels and creative projects exploring the topic within complex media ecosystems. We encourage participants to start from an appreciation of game and play in the broader context of media ecology, therefore overcoming too specialized understanding of both terms. Playing with Johan Huizinga’s idea that game and play are older than culture, we seek to recall the multifaceted symbolic dimensions embedded by these very terms: at its roots the word game means participation, communion, and people together; similarly, the word play introduces the ideas of cultivating, taking care of, and performing. Therefore interfaces of play and game engage us in a plurality of explorations, all placing media and media environments at the core. Lines of investigations may include but are not limited to the following:
·  game/play as frames for meta-communication
·  game/play as rituals
·  game/play as strategies for storytelling
·  game/play as self/meta-representations
·  game/play as entertainment
·  game/play as educational strategies
·  game/play as system and complexity theories

Although we encourage submissions that touch upon or align with the convention theme, papers, abstracts, and panel proposal submissions from all areas of Media Ecology are welcome. A maximum of two submissions per author will be accepted. Authors who wish their papers to be considered for the Top Paper or Top Student Paper award must indicate this on their submission(s). The top papers will be published in Explorations in Media Ecology. All submissions will be acknowledged. The language of the convention is English.

Guidelines for Submission (Deadline: November 1, 2015)
For Manuscripts (for MEA award submissions):
1. Manuscripts should be 4,000-6,000 words (approximately 15 to 25 double-spaced pages).
2. Include a cover page (or e-submission page) with your academic or professional affiliation and other contact information.
3. Include a 150 word abstract, with the title. Use APA, MLA, or Chicago style.
4. Papers should be written in English.

For Paper and Panel Proposals:
1. Include title, abstract, and contact information with your proposal.
2. Outline, as relevant, how your paper or panel will fit with the convention theme.
3. Presenters should be prepared to deliver their papers in English.
4. Authors with papers submitted as part of a panel proposal or as a paper proposal that wish to be considered for Top Paper or Top Student Paper must send completed paper to the convention planner by June 1, 2016.

Inquiries: Contact the Convention Coordinators at MEA2016@unibo.it.

Convention Venues and Location
The University of Bologna has adopted a multicampus structure in order to permit the diffusion of educational offerings, foster research activity, and improve the functionality and quality of university community life. The MEA convention will be hosted by the University of Bologna at:
–  LILEC (Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures) – UNIBO Main Campus
–  DISCI (Department of History and Culture) – UNIBO Main Campus
–  QUVI (Department for Life Quality Studies) – UNIBO Rimini Campus

The University of Bologna is a city university, with the main campus in downtown Bologna. All facilities can be reached on foot easily from any hotels or university residency. We envisage a dedicated shuttle to bring MEA Convention participants from Bologna to Rimini and back. The City of Bologna and the City of Rimini will co-promote the Convention.

Travel to the Convention
Even though there are no direct flights from North America (with some exceptions in the summer, especially from NYC), the Bologna international airport is well connected to major European hubs (several daily flights to all EU hubs and capital cities). The Railway station in Bologna is connected to all main Italian cities, hourly (e.g.: 1,05 hour to Milan; 37 minutes to Florence; 2,05 hours to Rome).

Leisure time / Excursions
Bologna is at the crossroad of many possibilities: MEA participants could easily reach many different Italian historical places by public means of transport (Florence, Venice, Rome, Milan, Ravenna, etc.). This opens up many possibilities for extended stays.

Similarly, from Bologna it is possible to organise short trips (about 30 minutes), also by train or bus, to such renowned cities as Ferrara (city of Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi Contini and of Lucrezia Borgia) or Modena (city of the Ferrari team).

Bologna Tour
We would be happy to plan special guided tours within the city of Bologna, including:
–  University Collections (Bologna was the home city of Galvani, Aldrovandi, Marconi, and many other illustrious men and women of science and art; the University collections include memorabilia from various historical times).
–  Historical places (The “Seven Churches” and other Cathedrals; Giorgio Morandi’s studio and museum collection; The Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio, etc.).
–  Museums (as diverse as: Museum of Music; Museum of the City of Bologna; Museum of contemporary Art; Ducati Motors Museum; Pinacoteca Nazionale, etc.).

CFP Cinema and History: Time, Memory, Identity in the Images of the New Millenium (Italy)

Call for Papers

CINEMA & HISTORY
Time, memory, identity in the images of the new millennium
26-27 November 2015
Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo

The deadline has been extended to September 30, 2015

Conference convenors: Christian Uva and Vito Zagarrio

Institutional partners:
University of Leeds Centre for World Cinemas (UK)
Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
SISSCO (Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea)
CPA (Centro Produzione Audiovisivi) – Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Cinema e Storia. Rivista di studi interdisciplinari (Rubbettino Editore)

The 21^st annual international conference of the Dipartimento Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo (formerly Dipartimento Comunicazione e Spettacolo) of Università Roma Tre will consider the relationship between cinema and history, identifying new directions and contemporary approaches in the field.

This conference reprises a theme central to discussion in the 1980s, when a number of important symposia and publications in Italy responded to the translation of key French scholarship. Returning to the question of cinema and history after three decades implies the consideration of aspects and forms of knowledge absent from those earlier debates. Bringing the discussion right up to date, the aim of this conference is to employ a plurality of discourses to explore in greater depth the theme of cinema and history and to clarify a crucial relationship that has been essential to cinema since its inception.

Taking as its premise the fact that in our digital era the relationship between cinema and history is played out over a broad and complex terrain, the conference seeks to consider cinema in /hybrid /and /expanded /terms. This may require analysing cinema’s relationship with history within a broader mediatic context, taking into account – for instance – adjacent and tangential media such as television, videoart, internet and videogames. The convenors therefore warmly invite contributions that aim to problematize the relationship between cinema and history in ways not limited to the following:
-the use of cinema and history as a /method/ or lens through which to read a range of film categories beyond any historical film ‘genre’: films that, while setting their action in the present, suggest a dialectical and critical attitude towards the past, especially in order to address conceptions and perceptions of national, cultural, gender and political identity; films that are capable of addressing and affecting contemporary imaginaries and mentalities, thus becoming historical /agents/ in their own right; films that become precious primary sources for scholars, by embodying the customs and material habits of their time; films which, though set in the present, allow us to reflect on material and everyday “microhistories” in which the story “dissolves”
time and erupts into the present (Baudrillard);
-the rethinking and transcending of traditional film histories by seeing cinema and history in the light of a hybrid and global iconographic system that forces us to wonder whether we should thinking in terms distinct from the “longue durée” and allows us to avoid “textbook” slogans and stereotypes;
-history as critique, between ‘the end of history’ (Fukuyama) and its traumatic return following 9/11;
-history as /imaginary /(Ferro) and as /myth /(Rosen), but also as /atmosphere/;
-counter-factual history (“What if?”);
-history as /anti-history/: a form of projection into the past of scepticism and disillusion with present and future;
-history as /anachronistic/ configuration: according to Georges Didi-Huberman this is a ‘heretical’ approach to image and history; while it confirms the necessity to conceive of cinema and history as part of visual culture, Didi-Huberman’s perspective stresses the intimate ‘exuberance’, ‘complexity’ and ‘overdetermination’ (/Überdeterminierung/) of images, forcing a rethinking the cinema-history relationship within the context of the /construction of memory/;
-from ‘historical facts’ to ‘memory facts’ (Ricoeur): cinema as site of memory (both individual and/or collective); cinema as an ideal space in which to activate not the ‘time of dates’ (Bloch) but instead a dimension – often framed negatively as nostalgia (Boym) – that humanizes history and constantly reconfigures it;
-the digital imaginary between memory and history (Burgoyne);
-theoretical and practical reconsiderations of cinema through a feminist and gendered lens: analysing the dynamics of production and reception; the interaction between Foucauldian genealogical thought and feminist theories;
-from /‘official’ history/ to /‘popular’ history/, from /engagé /to escapist cinema: the cinema-history relationship as an opportunity to reframe works that have traditionally been excluded from the analysis of cinema and history, not least because of the enduring legacy and role of /engagement /in representing the past (Landy, O’Leary);
-the study of the experience and reception of the historical film, in all its possible variations;
-history in audio-visual contexts: from television to videoart;
-history in videogames;
-history and photography;
-the employment and potential of digital technology in quantitative methods to serve an expanded understanding of cinema and history.

We will consider every proposal (300-500 words), with 5 keywords, 3-5 bibliographic references, and a brief biography of the proponent, submitted via email before September 30th, 2015. Selections results will be announced before October 9th.

Official languages of the Conference: English, French, Italian.

During the conference will be held the following workshops:
Italian Cinemas/Italian Histories
Organizer and chair: Alan O’Leary (University of Leeds)

How have Italians used films to negotiate their histories and interrogate their identities over more than a century of Italian cinema? This workshop will discuss the aims and research methods of a major
project intended to reconfigure the understanding of the relationship between Italian cinema and history.

Cinema and the Construction of the Nation: Italian Identities Between History and Memory
Organizers and chairs: Sally Hill (Victoria University of Wellington),
Giacomo Lichtner (Victoria University of Wellington)

Focusing on Italy as a case study that is both emblematic and anomalous, the workshop’s starting point is the hypothesis that the Italian case is emblematic, because Italian cinema has traditionally made effective and widespread use of stereotype to construct a sanitised and homogeneous narrative of national identity, but also an anomalous one, because it has dealt ambiguously with the nation’s historical contradictions. While every nation’s history is contested, Italy’s inability to construct a shared narrative of its recent past suggests that the peculiarity of Italian ‘memory’ lies in the coexistence of ‘divided memories’ (Foot, 2009).

Conference website: http://uniromatre.wix.com/cinemaestoria#!home/c17ca

EIUC Training for International Electoral Observers (Italy)

Training for International Electoral Observers
23-28 November 2015, Venice
With the Patronage of: Italian, Czech and Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Early bird enrolment until 30 September 2015
More Info

We are happy to announce that EIUC training seminar for International Electoral Observers is now ready to accept candidatures.

EIUC has developed two three-day modules aiming at providing training to civilian staff in election observation missions at the first steps of their career (i.e. short term observers). Selected applicants will be allowed to become aware of the role, the tasks and the status of international observers, and will be given a theoretical and practical training on election observation and election observation missions functioning.

The first module (23-25 November 2015) will highlight the quantitative observation of the STOs. Starting with a thorough introduction on the international observation theory and legal standards the first module will analyse the practical life of a short term observer from the selection procedure to the end of mission including the observation of the polls, the filling of the forms, the reporting system and the code of the conduct.

The second module (26-28 November 2015) will introduce the participants to the long-term election observation by analysing in depth some of the aspects related to an international observation mission such as working relations, team-building, interviewing techniques and coordination of the STOs.

EIUC will accept candidatures for each separate module or both combined. Applicants will therefore have a possibility to choose the module which is more closely related to their interests and experience or combine the two of them for a more complete understanding of the topic.

The faculty is composed by well-known international trainers and professionals with a long standing practical experience in election observation missions within international organisations such as the European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Lectures are conceived for an audience of graduates mainly in Law, Political Sciences, Economics, Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology or similar, and will be held in English. It is, therefore, essential that all participants understand and speak English fluently.

The seminar will take place at the Monastery of San Nicolò, at the Lido of Venice.

The deadline for sending applications is 30 October 2015 through the online application form.

For further enquiries please contact EIUC.

CFP Time, Memory & Identity in the Images of the New Millennium (Italy)

CINEMA & HISTORY: Time, memory and identity in the images of the new millennium
26-27 November 2015

Conference convenors
Christian Uva and Vito Zagarrio

Institutional partners
University of Leeds Centre for World Cinemas (UK)
Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
SISSCO (Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea)
CPA (Centro Produzione Audiovisivi) – Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Cinema e Storia. Rivista di studi interdisciplinari (Rubbettino Editore)

Call for Papers
The 21st annual international conference of the Dipartimento Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo (formerly Dipartimento Comunicazione e Spettacolo) of Università Roma Tre will consider the relationship between cinema and history, identifying new directions and contemporary approaches in the field. This conference reprises a theme central to discussion in the 1980s, when a number of important symposia and publications in Italy responded to the translation of key French scholarship. Returning to the question of cinema and history after three decades implies the consideration of aspects and forms of knowledge absent from those earlier debates. Bringing the discussion right up to date, the aim of this conference is to employ a plurality of discourses to explore in greater depth the theme of cinema and history and to clarify a crucial relationship that has been essential to cinema since its inception.

Taking as its premise the fact that in our digital era the relationship between cinema and history is played out over a broad and complex terrain, the conference seeks to consider cinema in /hybrid /and /expanded /terms. This may require analysing cinema’s relationship with history within a broader mediatic context, taking into account – for instance – adjacent and tangential media such as television, videoart, internet and videogames. The convenors therefore warmly invite contributions that aim to problematize the relationship between cinema and history in ways not limited to the following:
• the use of cinema and history as a /method/ or lens through which to read a range of film categories beyond any historical film ‘genre’: films that, while setting their action in the present, suggest a dialectical and critical attitude towards the past, especially in order to address conceptions and perceptions of national, cultural, gender and political identity; films that are capable of addressing and affecting contemporary imaginaries and mentalities, thus becoming historical /agents/ in their own right; films that become valuable primary sources for scholars, by embodying the customs and material habits of their time; films which, though set in the present, allow us to reflect on material and everyday “microhistories” in which the story “dissolves” time and erupts into the present (Baudrillard);
• the rethinking and transcending of traditional film histories by seeing cinema and history in the light of a hybrid and global iconographic system that forces us to wonder whether we should thinking in terms distinct from the “longue durée” and allows us to avoid “textbook” slogans and stereotypes;
• history as critique, between ‘the end of history’ (Fukuyama) and its traumatic return following 9/11;
• history as /imaginary /(Ferro) and as /myth /(Rosen), but also as /atmosphere/;
• counter-factual history (“What if?”);
• history as /anti-history/: a form of projection into the past of scepticism and disillusion with present and future;
• history as /anachronistic/ configuration — for Georges Didi-Huberman a ‘heretical’ approach to image and history: while it confirms the necessity to conceive of cinema and history as part of visual culture, Didi-Huberman’s perspective stresses the intimate ‘exuberance’, ‘complexity’ and ‘overdetermination’ (/Überdeterminierung/) of images, forcing a rethinking of the cinema-history relationship within the context of the /construction of memory/;
• from ‘historical facts’ to ‘memory facts’ (Ricoeur): cinema as site of memory (both individual and/or collective); cinema as an ideal space in which to activate not the ‘time of dates’ (Bloch) but instead a dimension — often framed negatively as nostalgia (Boym) — that humanizes history and constantly reconfigures it;
• the digital imaginary between memory and history (Burgoyne);
• theoretical and practical reconsiderations of cinema through a feminist and gendered lens:  analysing the dynamics of production and reception; the interaction between Foucauldian genealogical thought and feminist theories;
• from /‘official’ history/ to /‘popular’ history/, from /engagé /to escapist cinema: the cinema-history relationship as an opportunity to reframe works that have traditionally been excluded from the analysis of cinema and history, not least because of the enduring legacy and role of /engagement /in representing the past (Landy);
• the study of the experience and reception of the historical film, in all its possible variations;
• history in audio-visual contexts: from television to videoart; history in videogames; history and photography;
• the employment and potential of digital technology and quantitative methods to serve an expanded understanding of cinema and history.

We will consider every proposal (300-500 words), with 5 keywords, 3-5 bibliographic references, and a brief biography of the proponent, sent before September 7th, 2015, by email. The selection results will be announced before September 30th. Official languages of the Conference: English, French, Italian.

Conference fees
Until 15 October 2015: 50 € (Faculty member), 30 € (Student)
From 15 October 2015 (late payment): 70 € (Faculty member), 50 € (Student)
(details of the conference website and of methods of payment will be provided in due course)

Master in Human Rights and Conflict Management (Pisa, Italy)

Call for Applications for the XIV Edition of the Master in Human Rights and Conflict Management – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy)- 2016

Applications shall be submitted online at www.humanrights.sssup.it
Applications for admission by non EU citizens shall be sent no later than July 2, 2015 (1st round of selection) or September 17, 2015 (2nd round of selection)
Applications for admission by EU citizens shall be sent no later than October 15, 2015

Description:
The Master in Human Rights and Conflict Management is designed to provide students from different cultures and backgrounds with a deep understanding of the linkages between human rights and conflict management theory and practice. The curriculum, strongly field oriented, prepares participants for working with NGOs, governments, aid agencies, the UN system and regional organisations, also operating in the context of complex emergencies and joint operations.

Structure:
The Programme is divided into two didactic modules, running between mid January and the end of July 2016, followed by an internship or field experience of min. 3 and max. 6 months, starting from August 2016, and a presentation of the students’ final dissertation in spring 2017.

Key features:
*1 year post-graduate professionalizing and field-oriented programme
*Interdisciplinary nature of the programme with a methodology characterized by a combination of theory and practice
*Lecturers and trainers chosen among high level academics, diplomats, international organizations officers and NGOs activists, thus offering a wealth of both academic and field expertise
*Mandatory internship/field experience in leading organisations working in the areas of human rights protection/promotion, conflict prevention/resolution, humanitarian assistance or development, either in the field or at Headquarters
*Career service with specific sessions on career coaching and recruiting session with UNV
*International and multicultural student environment

Why should I apply?
You should apply if you are looking for a professionalizing and mission/field-oriented international master programme, as offered by the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, an example of academic excellence in training and research. If your training needs include practical skills, besides relevant theoretical knowledge, as well as internship/field-experience with prestigious international organizations, this training programme is highly relevant for you.

Curriculum:
The curriculum is strongly multidisciplinary and field oriented and includes courses in: International Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law, Geopolitics, HRs philosophical dimension, Economic Development, Theories and Techniques of Conflict Management, International PK and PB operations, International HR Field operations, International Election Observation missions, International Humanitarian operations, International Project Development, Personal security, Stress Management, Preventive Medicine & First Aid, Essentials of Research and Writing, Career coaching.

Internship:
The internship is meant to supplement the in-class training with a relevant hand-on experience, to be carried out with a renowned organization working in the areas of human rights protection/promotion, conflict prevention/resolution, humanitarian assistance or development, either in the field or at headquarters.

Tuition fee:
The tuition fee for the full Programme is 7.500,00 euros, payable in two installments. It covers the following: attendance costs and participation to field trips, didactic material (in electronic format), tutorship, lunch (on class and exam days), access to all facilities of the Scuola (including library and computer rooms). It does not include accommodation costs in Pisa and during the internship, nor travel expenses.

The Master Programme offers one scholarship in memory of Gualtiero Fulcheri – former UN Assistant Secretary General – covering the full tuition fee and to be awarded to the most deserving applicant. Depending on financial availability, reduced tuition fee might be offered to citizens from non-OECD countries who are eligible for a study visa for Italy .

Contact
For further details, download the brochure, visit the website, or contact:
Master in Human Rights and Conflict Management
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Via Cardinale Maffi, 27 56126 Pisa – ITALY
E-mail: humanrights@sssup.it
Tel. +39 050 882653
Fax +39 050 882665

Dublin III Training Workshop by EIUC (Venice)

Dublin III, two years on. Asylum seekers and refugees in the EU and beyond

Dates: 19-21 June 2015
Deadline for enrollment: 21 May 2015
Deadline for early bird enrolment: 25 April 2015
Location: Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice Lido (Italy)
Training Responsibles: Paolo De Stefani
Project Manager: Elisabetta Noli

Introduction
Two years into the endorsement of the “Dublin III regulation”, international protection provided by the EU to the increasing number of asylum seekers fleeing their countries is being challenged. Efficacy of these norms and policies is under scrutiny, as well as the complex relationship between the EU and its member states when it comes to concrete implementation. Is Dublin III – and more broadly the common European asylum system – meeting human rights concerns emerging from the migration crisis and the many recent humanitarian disasters? What are the dilemmas faced by European lawyers and legal practitioners when it comes to everyday application of EU and international legal standards on asylum?

The training seminar on “Dublin III, two years on. Asylum seekers and refugees in the EU and beyond” is set to analyze these important questions. It is designed to provide participants with an overview of the European asylum system and foster cross-border cooperation and networking among legal practitioners from all EU and non-EU countries involved in the application of the relevant national, EU and international standards. Mutual trust between legal practitioners from all EU countries is essential to ensure the coherent application of EU legislation across the Union as well as to provide a platform for exchange of good practices and, where relevant, critical analysis and reform proposals.

The course aims at reaching this primary objective by involving distinguished scholars and practitioners in a thorough overview of the legal instruments at stake, and facilitate comparative analysis of experiences and challenges.

The ultimate objectives of the training seminar are to:
*provide participants with an overview of the common European asylum system and of the existing international human rights instruments setting universal principles on asylum, refugee status, migration;
*allow a comparative analysis of this normative system;
*create a forum for exchange of best practices;
*foster cross-border cooperation and networking among legal practitioners from all EU countries involved in the implementation of the EU norms.

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E.MA. in Human Rights and Democratisation

Deadline for applications for E.MA. 2015/2016 offered by EIUC has been extended to 30 April 2015. Check the admission requirements to apply for this European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation to enhance knowledge, gain practical skills, develop competences and boost career in these fields. This E.MA offers a unique learning and human experience through this intensive one-year Master’s programme articulated in two semesters: a First Semester from September to January in Venice (Italy) and a Second Semester from February to July in one of the 41 E.MA universities in the EU.

The historic and peaceful location of the Monastery of San Nicolò in Venice Lido will be the setting where you will meet, learn, study and debate with our international network of academics, field practitioners and experts in human rights, development and institution building. Join the community of more than 1300 human rights professionals and defenders holding the E.MA Joint Degree and now working in national, international, governmental, inter- and non-governmental organisations, as well as academic institutions, dealing with human rights and democratisation.

Watch what Prof. Manfred Nowak, E.MA Director from University of Vienna, says about the European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation!

Training seminars for International Electoral Observers (Venice)

The third edition of the Training Seminar for International Electoral Observers will be held at the Monastery of San Nicolò, Lido, Venice from 13 to 18 April 2015.
Application deadline: 5 April 2015.

The principle of holding periodic and open elections is a vital part of democratization and stabilisation of peace agreements around the world. If interested to learn about election observation missions and what the opportunities in this field are, join the EIUC (European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratisation) training seminar for International Electoral Observers: a seminar combining expert discussions and a hands-on workshop.

The training seminar for graduates or professionals aims at introducing civilian staff to the profession of election observers and at delivering a complete theoretical and practical basic course to those willing to consider election observation as a possible professional step in their career. Its international faculty includes prestigious lectures in human rights, such as Armin Rabitsch who has been working in the field of elections, democratization and good governance in a variety of organizations including the UNDP, EU and OSCE/ODIHR for the past 15 years and Stephane Mondon, who has an extensive experience within the European Union, UNDP and the Carter Center.

The training seminar is organised by the EIUC and granted patronage by the Italian, Spanish and the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

EIUC has developed two five-day modules that will allow to selected applicants to become aware of the role, the tasks and the status of international observers, and will be given a theoretical and practical training on election observation and election observation missions functioning.

The first module 13-15 April 2015) will highlight the quantitative observation of the STOs. Starting with a thorough introduction on the international observation theory and legal standards the first module will analyse the practical life of a short term observer from the selection procedure to the end of mission including the observation of the polls, the filling of the forms, the reporting system and the code of the conduct.

The second module (16-18 April 2015) will introduce the participants to the long-term election observation by analysing in depth some of the aspects related to an international observation mission such as working relations, the role of the media, interviewing and reporting techniques and electoral dispute resolutions.

EIUC will accept candidatures for each separate module or both combined.

Please note that applications will be processed on an on-going basis. Interested candidates should register by compiling the online application form.

For further enquiries please contact the organizers.

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Venice Academy of Human Rights: (Dis)Integration through Human Rights

The Venice Academy of Human Rights will take place from 6-15 July 2015. The theme of this year’s academy is ‘(Dis)Integration through Human Rights: Citizens, Courts, Communities’.
Online applications are accepted until 3 May 2015.
The Academy offers an “early bird” registration with a reduced participation fee until 15 March 2015.

Faculty of the Venice Academy 2015
Distinguished Opening Lecture: Albie Sachs, Former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
General Course: Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen’s University
Faculty:
Armin v. Bogdandy, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Andreas Føllesdal, Professor of Political Philosophy at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and Director of the Norwegian Centre of Excellence PluriCourts for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order, University of Oslo
Marc Weller, Professor of International Law and International Constitutional Studies and Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
Marlene Wind, EURECO Professor and Director of the Centre for European Politics, University of Copenhagen

You can view the detailed programme here.

Key Facts
Participants: Academics, practitioners, PhD/JSD and master students
Type of courses: Lectures, seminars, workshops and discussion sessions
Number of hours: up to 35 hours of courses
Location: Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice – Lido, Italy
Fees: 500 EUR (early bird registration until 15 March), 600 EUR (16 March – 3 May 2015)

Venice Academy of Human Rights
The Venice Academy of Human Rights is an international programme of excellence for human rights education, research and debate. It forms part of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC). The Academy offers interdisciplinary thematic programmes open to academics, practitioners, doctoral and master students with an advanced knowledge of human rights. Participants attend morning lectures, participate in discussion sessions and workshops and can exchange views, ideas and arguments with leading international scholars and experts. This includes the opportunity for a number of participants to present and discuss their own “work in progress” such as drafts of articles, chapters of books or doctoral theses and receive comments from faculty members and peers. At the end of the programme, participants receive a Certificate of Attendance issued by the Venice Academy of Human Rights.